How to add costume field to work flow

[Lokesh Gowda]

Hello,

We have a custom field "CloseDate" I would like to get the date in this CloseDarte filed when we are closing any tickets. I know we need to add this custom field to a workflow using post-function. I would like to know who can we add this to the workflow. I am using JIRA 7.4.4 Datacenter version. Please help me to achieve this.

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hi @Lokesh Gowda 

Welcome to the community.

Jira has already a field called Resolved. When you set the resolution on your issue the date is saved in this field.

[Lokesh Gowda]

Thanks,

The Management teams are asking the data need to be in CloseData only, Due to this, I am looking around it. Is there a way we can get this data to CloseData custom field 

[Lokesh Gowda]

Hi Mohamed,

Please suggest how to achieve this.

[Mohamed Benziane]

You can't do it automatically using postfunction. You will need an addon like Automation or Scriptrunner.

[Lokesh Gowda]

HI Mohamed,

Can I use Mygroovy plugin and write a groovy script to copy the Resolved to a custom field on post function. If yes can you help me with a groovy script?

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hi,

You can look at these page:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Scriptrunner-copy-field-value-to-another-cf/qaq-p/797089

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Copy-Custom-field-value-from-one-field-to-another/qaq-p/73207

[Lokesh Gowda]

Hi Mohamed,

I have added the groovy and getting the Close date but its showing as "2 days ago", "1 days ago" and 1 minute ago its not give the data. Please find the Groovy script and the custom field value.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import java.sql.Timestamp
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def dateCf = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_10104") // Date time fields require a Timestamp
issue.setCustomFieldValue(dateCf, new Timestamp((new Date()).time))

CloseDate

Date Time Picker

Can you please help me to solve this issue.

[Lokesh Gowda]

Hi Mohamed,

Can you please help me on this.

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hi Lokesh,

Sorry but i'm not using this plugin and i don't know groovy. Can you open a new question on the community you might find better help than me

[Lokesh Gowda]

Thanks

[Sanjana _Alacriz_]

Hi Lokesh,

I think this article might help you with code. I did not test though.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-set-a-custom-field-with-the-current-date-time-in-a-post/qaq-p/143415

Thanks,

Sanjana

[Lokesh Gowda]

Hi Sanjana,

Yes, it helped me, I have completed this task.